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WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

News.com.au -- A CATHOLIC priest sexually abused a number of teenagers at a boys' home in southern Sydney in the late 1980s, a court has been told. Father Paul Evans was dorm master at Boys' Town Catholic boarding school at Engadine at the time of the alleged inciden.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Sep 23, 2007 @ 7:00pm neoform

Independent -- The Pope is expected to use his first address to the United Nations to deliver a powerful warning over climate change in a move to adopt protection of the environment as a "moral" cause for the Catholic Church and its billion-strong following. The New.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Sep 21, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- A new Roman Catholic bishop of Beijing has been consecrated in the Chinese capital, the first for over 50 years to have tacit approval of the Pope. Father Joseph Li Shan, 42, was made bishop at a ceremony in a cathedral near Tiananmen Square. His pr.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- A senior Vatican cardinal has inaugurated a low-cost charter flight service which aims to transport Catholic pilgrims to holy sites. The first flight from Rome to Lourdes in France took off at 1130 (0930 GMT), using a small charter airline owned by the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 24, 2007 @ 10:44pm neoform

CNN -- Mexico City lawmakers voted to legalize abortion Tuesday, a decision likely to influence policies and health practices across Mexico and other parts of heavily Roman Catholic Latin America. The proposal, approved 46-19, with one abstention, will take e.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 12:43am neoform

USA Today -- Irene Martin and Neil Stone have lived worlds apart, though not far from each other, through decades of Protestant vs. Catholic strife. Martin, a 69-year-old retiree, lives in a Protestant working-class area of northwest Belfast. Stone, 46, is from the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 4:54pm neoform

BBC News -- The head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique has told the BBC he believes some European-made condoms are infected with HIV deliberately. Maputo Archbishop Francisco Chimoio claimed some anti-retroviral drugs were also infected "in order to finish quic.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 4:34pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- However Ncube, the head of the Catholic church in the Bulawayo diocese, insisted he had "not been silenced by the crude machinations of a wicked regime." His lawyers said the photos were an attempt to discredit him and in a statement the 60-year-old c.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- A prominent critic of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has resigned as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, after an adultery scandal. Zimbabwe's state media in July published photographs of what it said was Pius Ncube in bed with a married wom.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Aug 5, 2007 @ 4:48pm neoform

BBC News -- France's most senior Catholic prelate, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, has died in Paris at the age of 80. The former archbishop of the French capital died on Sunday in a clinic to which he was admitted in April. He was born Aaron Lustiger to Polish J.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jul 13, 2007 @ 11:19am neoform

CNN -- A charismatic leader dubbed the "Bishop of the Poor" is an early favorite to make history as the first man to serve as a Roman Catholic bishop, then be elected president of his country. The Vatican is not pleased, and it's not alone: Fernando Lugo's candi.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri May 11, 2007 @ 1:20am neoform

FOX News -- Pope Benedict XVI's agreement that Roman Catholic politicians in Mexico City who voted to legalize abortion should be denied the rite of Communion could have an effect on the 2008 presidential race in the United States. The pontiff's comments put five.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- A directive by Italian bishops ordering Catholic politicians to vote against gay rights legislation has caused a political uproar and prompted fresh charges of Church interference in domestic affairs. The long-awaited note, issued on Wednesday by the I.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Mar 25, 2007 @ 3:21am neoform

Yahoo News -- Hungary's Catholic military bishop has resigned because he wants to marry a woman he met in the church's renewal movement, media reported Friday. Brigadier General Tamas Szabo, 50, has been preaching to Catholic soldiers, border guards and their famili.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 9, 2007 @ 12:48pm mrmdc

Reuters -- Pope Benedict was opposed to Bob Dylan appearing at a youth event with the late Pope John Paul in 1997 because he considered the pop star the wrong kind of "prophet," Benedict writes in a new book issued on Thursday. Benedict, who was Cardinal Joseph R.. Read More